![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most controversial concepts that these books stirred up was the concept of the fluidity of sexual orientation. These books were known as The Kinsey Reports, and they discussed the intricate and often shifting nature of human sexuality. However, in the years preceding the creation of Cat, two highly controversial books about the sex lives of humans were published. Think June Cleaver's hair and Pleasantville black-and-whiteness. Following the destruction and chaos of the two world wars, much of America trended toward the concept of the stable nuclear family. The play is about a Mississippi family and was written during a time that was in love with good ole family values and the shock-value of blue jeans. Written in 1955, in the midst of the Leave It To Beaver era in America, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof garnered Tennessee Williams his second Pulitzer Prize. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() When The Maze Runner came out, it appeared a new cultural phenomenon was on our hands. ![]() While the three films comprising the Maze Runner series received mixed reviews from critics, they were a massive financial success for 20th Century Fox, grossing a total of $949 million. When the first Maze Runner film was released in 2014, it was in good company, with other high-budget adaptations like The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Divergent. If the 2000s was the decade of teen movies, then the 2010s was the decade of YA book-to-film adaptations: with the success of film franchises like The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter, every major studio was on the lookout for a hit YA series of their own. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Broke Billionaires Club (Books 1 - 3): The Broke Billionaire, The Billionaire's Brother, and The Billionairess by Ann Omastaĭating A Prince: A Royalish Series by R. ![]() The Unlikeable Demon Hunter: Sting (Nava Katz Book 2) by Deborah Wildeįebruary in Atlantis: A Poseidon's Warriors paranormal romance by Alyssa DayĬASEN (The Karma Series Book 2) by Amy MarieĬamp Crush (Accidental Kisses Book 1) by Tammy Andresen Pas De Deux: A Dance For Two by Lynn Turnerįrank (Seven Sons Book 6) by Amelia C. Say I Do in Good Hope (A Good Hope Novel Book 5) by Cindy Kirk Resisting Mateo (Morelli Family, #5) by Sam MarianoĪbout Time (The Avenue Book 1) by B. ![]() Rescued (A Bad Boy Navy Seal Romance Book 1) by J.L. Steele, Jenika Snow, Penny Wylder, Sawyer Bennett, Michelle Love, Mia Ford, Delilah Devlin, Piper Davenport, Random Novels Wrong Bed, Right Guy 1 in series by Katee Robert ebook 0 of 7 copies available Wait time: Available soon Place a hold Read a sample Add to wish list Add to history Description Details Prim and proper art gallery coordinator Elle Walser has had her eye on her boss for months, but he keeps missing the hints she throws his way. Barton, Frankie Love, Madison Faye, Dale Mayer, C.M. Read books online free novels Hot Authors Sam Crescent, Flora Ferrari, Zoe Chant, Alexa Riley, Mia Madison, Lexy Timms, Claire Adams, Leslie North, Sophie Stern, Elizabeth Lennox, Amy Brent, Jordan Silver, Bella Forrest, Kathi S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beckett would later expand this technique in his absurdist dramas, giving his characters increasingly bizarre names. ![]() Placed together, the names seem odd, somehow out of place. Within this decidedly bourgeois framework, Sartre introduces three characters with two-syllable names: Garcin (very close to garcon, French for “boy”), Inez (“Ines” in the French version), and Estelle (suggesting “star”, and therefore heaven). The Second Empire style is the epitome of the ostentatious, neo-classical tendency of French art and design, and is therefore a perfect representative for Sartre’s distaste for the bourgeoisie. Sartre was a tireless champion of human dignity, and despised many of the bourgeois values of his society (refusing even to marry his longtime companion). Rather, the setting is a drawing room containing only Second Empire furniture: there are no windows, no mirrors, and no signs of the outside world save for a single, locked door. Three characters are trapped in hell, but there are no instruments of torture or pits of fire. NO EXIT by author Taylor Adams (EYESHOT, OUR LAST NIGHT) is a 2019 thriller novel which follows one night in the life of Colorado college student Darby Thorne as she drives to Utah, where her mother has been recently hospitalized with pancreatic cancer. ![]() Startlingly simple in design, the play’s power stems from the focus and precision of its form. The theater in which it was performed was called the Vieux-Colombier. No Exit was first performed in Paris in May 1944, only three months before the city’s liberation from the Nazi occupation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. ![]() Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe―a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"―six people meet and find their lives changed forever. ![]() A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War ![]() ![]() ![]() She taught Creative Writing, Chicano Studies, and Feminist Studies at University of Texas, San Francisco State University, Vermont College of Norwich University, and University of California Santa Cruz. ![]() She also authored three bilingual children’s books, including Prietita Has a Friend/Prietita tiene un amigo. ![]() In addition to authoring Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Aunt Lute, 1987), she was the editor of the critical anthology Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras (Aunt Lute, 1990) and co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Persephone, 1981), winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Her works also include Interviews/Entrevistas (Routledge, 2000) and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, edited with AnaLouise Keating (Routledge, 2002). Gloria Anzaldúa was a Chicana-tejana-lesbian-feminist poet, theorist, and fiction writer from South Texas. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2014, she was named a Human Rights Campaign Youth Ambassador and received LogoTV’s Youth Trailblazer Award. She was named to Time’s “Most Influential Teens” list two years in a row, was one of Huffington Post’s “14 Most Fearless Teens,” and was the youngest person ever featured on Out’s “Out 100,” as well as on Advocate’s “40 Under 40” list. She has a docu-series about her life called I Am Jazz on TLC, which started airing in July 2015. ![]() Jazz Jennings is a trans woman, YouTube celebrity, spokesmodel, activist, and author of the memoir Being Jazz. Jessica is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Previously, Jessica was the Education Director of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida the primary editor of an LGBTQ handbook for school administrators and a curriculum advisor for Broward County Public Schools. Jessica Herthel is a private consultant for LGBTQ-inclusive school districts and the current president of her local PFLAG chapter. ![]() ![]() capture moonlight in a jar But, as is the way in tales of princes and witches, doing the impossible is only the beginning. Seeking help for her rescue mission, Marra is offered the tools she needs, but only if she can complete three seemingly impossible tasks: But her sister wasn't so fortunate-and after years of silence, Marra is done watching her suffer at the hands of a powerful and abusive prince. ![]() ![]() As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an uncaring throne. *A very special hardcover edition, featuring gold foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive fantasy adventure. ![]() About the Book "Endpaper art by Ursula Vernon"-Title page verso.Īn Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022Īn NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022Ī Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two prophesied saviors, two sides in a brutal battle for humanity, two women forced to choose how far they are willing to go for power and protection in Kingsbane (2019) by Claire Legrand. Haunted by her mother’s legacy, desperate to save the people she cares about, Eliana will have to embrace her strengths and her weaknesses to become the queen Avitas needs. Unsure how to channel or control the Empirium, pressure is mounting for Eliana to demonstrate her strength and fulfill the prophecy saving humanity from the oppressive angels. Rielle chose to tie herself to Audric and Celdaria but she is no longer sure love is enough to determine her path.Ĭenturies later, Eliana Ferracora has been named Sun Queen but lacks the power to back up her new title. Hemmed in by her responsibilities and authority figures who fear her, Rielle finds she is not immune to the angel Corien’s alluring talk of freedom and unbound power. But even her powers are limited and time is short to allow her to collect the castings of the saints to help focus her efforts. Instead, with the Gate meant to keep angels out of Avitas failing, Rielle has to use her new command of the Empirium to repair it. Rielle Dardenne thought being anointed Sun Queen would be the end of her problems and the start of a bright future. To avoid spoilers and confusion, start at the beginning with Furyborn (and check out my review here).* * Kingsbane is the second book in Legrand’s Empirium trilogy and picks up shortly after the events of the first book. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the siblings are given distinctive personality traits, their wry dialogue may strike readers as formal (“Brother, you are a strange one”), especially for characters who should be around 5 and 6. Frightened by his cautionary tale, the siblings approach the water’s edge, where they find their friend’s backpack abandoned on the ice and receive the scare of their lives. He tells them to beware the qalupalik, a sea monster with long fingernails, slimy skin, and locks of hair dripping down its back. ![]() ![]() A contemporary rendition of an age-old myth, the story depicts their grandfather coming home from the hunt with a seal pulled behind his snowmobile. This easy-to-read graphic novel, set in the snowy Arctic tundra, tells the story of an imaginative brother named Putuguq who wants nothing more than to tag along with his older sister, Kublu, when she heads out to the shoreline to meet a friend. A pair of young siblings from Arviq Bay in northern Canada learn about an Inuit bogeyman. ![]() |